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NEW YORK (AP) — From his toy-cluttered Brooklyn apartment, the man in the red suit was making his list and checking it twice. But he made no distinction between naughty or nice: Every child on it would receive a gift from this Santa Claus. For the children whose toys floated away during Superstorm Sandy, Michael Sciaraffo is playing […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge says a Louisiana woman has the right to display holiday lights on her roof in the form of an extended middle finger. Sarah Childs sued Denham Springs, its mayor and police chief, claiming she was threatened with arrest if she didn’t take down the display. The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana […]
HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting deaths of two people overnight at a nightclub near Birmingham, Ala. Hoover police Capt. James Coker said U.S. marshals made an arrest at 7 a.m., seven hours after the shooting inside Martini’s Lounge in Hoover, Ala. The suspect has not yet been charged. […]
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Newtown’s children were showered with gifts Saturday — tens of thousands of teddy bears, Barbie dolls, soccer balls and board games — and those are only some of the tokens of support from around the world for the town in mourning. Just a little over a week ago, 20 children and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — National Rifle Association executive Wayne LaPierre says the American people think it would be “crazy” not to put armed guards in every school, as the group has suggested in the wake of the massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. LaPierre also contends that any new efforts by Congress to regulate […]
HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man fatally shot a woman decorating for a children’s Christmas party at a tiny church hall and killed two men elsewhere in a rural central Pennsylvania township Friday before he was fatally shot in a gunfight with state troopers. The shootings began in Frankstown Township at about 9 a.m. and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s largest gun-rights lobby called Friday for armed police officers to be posted in every American school to stop the next killer “waiting in the wings.” The National Rifle Association broke its silence on last week’s shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school that left 26 children and staff dead. “The […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two handguns have been seized from the bedroom of a teen who threatened a shooting at his suburban Philadelphia high school a week after a mass killing at a Connecticut elementary school, police said Friday. The Council Rock South High School ninth-grader was taken into custody Thursday after fellow students reported he […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two handguns have been seized from the bedroom of a teen who threatened a shooting at his suburban Philadelphia high school a week after a mass killing at a Connecticut elementary school, police said Friday. The Council Rock South High School ninth-grader was taken into custody Thursday after fellow students reported he […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A judge struck down Alabama’s decades-old policy of segregating prison inmates with HIV, ruling Friday that it violates federal law. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson ruled in favor of inmates who filed suit to end the longstanding practice. Thompson says the state’s policy violates federal disabilities law. Thompson said the state […]
First lady Michelle Obama penned a heartfelt letter to Newtown, Conn. one week after the senseless Sandy Hook tragedy that claimed the lives of 26…
Sarah Palin shoe-horned her way back into the headlines yesterday after speaking out against Time Magazine’s choice of President Barack Obama as its “Person of the Year.” The 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, who has been listed twice as one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People,” first poked fun at herself while taking a […]
